Timeline for Could mermaids feasibly make clothing out of natural rubber?
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Oct 4, 2018 at 18:45 | comment | added | Enthusiastic Leviathan | Thanks for the thoughts—all very helpful! I didn't know that about wool, I'll keep that in mind. | |
Oct 3, 2018 at 13:21 | comment | added | John | they can still make clothing from natural fibers like flax, reeds, wool, or cotton. this will have the added bonus of having pockets and being useful for making fishing nets. Wool in particular retains a lot of its insulating properties even when wet. | |
Oct 3, 2018 at 9:00 | comment | added | J Thomas | It makes a difference what purpose the clothing has. temperature control, armor, reduced drag when swimming, improved swimming generally like swim fins, protection from parasites (there are things like underwater mosquitoes, and things like underwater lice that could get under clothes), fashion (impractical shows your status is high enough you don't need to be practical), hide wounds, disguise smells, etc It makes a difference. Merpeople adapted to tropical water could survive cold water without a lot of fat, with an insulator. They'd need a way to deal with lice though. | |
Oct 3, 2018 at 8:37 | answer | added | Alleycatadd deviantart | timeline score: -1 | |
Aug 11, 2018 at 20:49 | vote | accept | Enthusiastic Leviathan | ||
Jul 25, 2018 at 21:14 | answer | added | realityChemist | timeline score: 3 | |
Jul 25, 2018 at 19:53 | answer | added | elemtilas | timeline score: 0 | |
Jul 23, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | Enthusiastic Leviathan | Excellent point! Molding had occurred to me, but I hadn't thought of rubber lace. | |
Jul 23, 2018 at 11:18 | comment | added | Kaiannae | I'm not sure I see the problem. A civilization advanced enough to make dentures will probably be able to make molds for rubber clothing, no? Or, if the rubber doesnt have to be airtight and is mostly decorative of for modesty reasons, sheets of it can be made and sewn together with a rubber lace, allowing to easily get OUT of the clothing as well as get IN. Because, let's face it, if you roll in latex and let it dry you'll probably get sometihng very much like a gimp suit which is almost impossible to get in and out of without some lubricant like talc powder or oil. | |
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Jul 23, 2018 at 2:52 | history | asked | Enthusiastic Leviathan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |